Eurozone finance ministers failed to approve a fresh €44 billion bailout for
Greece last night amid discord among the creditors over Athens’s prospects
of meeting its debt obligations on the schedule they set last year.

The emergency talks ended in the small hours with no deal reached. The finance
ministers said in a statement that they would meet again next Monday “for
further technical work on some elements of the package”.

They had been confident that they would settle hitches that have held up funds
that are vital to finance the Greek state and that should have been cleared
after